If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.